Re: Anybody else hate the search system?

"Doug Sanders" <dougsix@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> I bypassed the Vista OS, and stuck with XP til now.
>
> Is this Search routine the only option? It brings up all kinds of
> mismatches and items when all I want is to find the file with the name I
> typed into the 'Search' box.
>
> Is there a better way or a fall back to the earlier versions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug Sanders

No. Since the Windows 7 search actually takes the trouble to categorize the
finds in separate headings (documents, music, programs, control panel, etc)
and narrows the search based on the details of search parameters provided
(by you) it's hard to see how this is viewed as a negative thing. It's
lightning fast and includes more useful hits. It's system overhead is
minimal plus it's vastly superior to the XP search which basically could
find next to nothing and in many cases would return zero results even with a
known file name or extension. It's vastly improved over Vista as well, fwiw.

Re: Anybody else hate the search system?

"Doug Sanders" <dougsix@earthlink.net> wrote
> I bypassed the Vista OS, and stuck with XP til now.
>
> Is this Search routine the only option? It brings up all kinds of
> mismatches and items when all I want is to find the file with the name I
> typed into the 'Search' box.
>
> Is there a better way or a fall back to the earlier versions?

The best part is you can also disable the annoying Search an Indexing
Services running in the background of Windows 7. To disable these services,
type in the Run dialog box: services.msc > Select the service > Right-click
on properties and disable.

After testing that my system ran fine with these services disabled, I
decided to uninstall them completely: Control Panel> Programs> Programs and
features> Select Windows features on or off > Uncheck Windows Search and
Index Server.

I was surprised how much memory and CPU time was freed up. Now I have a good
searching tool and a faster system too.

Re: Anybody else hate the search system?

Doug Sanders wrote:
> I bypassed the Vista OS, and stuck with XP til now.
>
> Is this Search routine the only option? It brings up all kinds of
> mismatches and items when all I want is to find the file with the name I
> typed into the 'Search' box.
>
> Is there a better way or a fall back to the earlier versions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug Sanders
It's the worst search system I've ever used. Vista's search was far, far
superior--one of the few things I liked about Vista. The W7 search is
slow, slow, slow, sometimes doesn't find things that I know are
there--generally pathetic. Someone posted a link here to
FileSeek--forgot his name, unfortunately, plus the link--but look in
Google and try the free download. I think you'll like it.
Allen

Re: Anybody else hate the search system?

> I was surprised how much memory and CPU time was freed up. Now I have a
> good searching tool and a faster system too.

Yes, I'd be surprised too. In Windows 7 64 searchindexer.exe uses about
20Mb of kernel RAM for the process and what is basically an immeasurable
amount of CPU time. With the process killed there's no meaurable difference
in CPU usage. Your program uses 10Mb of kernel and is incapable of doing
most of what the Windows 7 search engine does. There's a whole lot of other
things this program can't and won't do. It's easy to be fast when you're
doing essentially nothing. But you save 0.5% of your RAM on a 2 Gig system
and a whopping .25% on a 4 gig system. You are a deliberate troll.

Re: Anybody else hate the search system?

Doug Sanders wrote:
> I bypassed the Vista OS, and stuck with XP til now.
>
> Is this Search routine the only option? It brings up all kinds of
> mismatches and items when all I want is to find the file with the name I
> typed into the 'Search' box.
>
> Is there a better way or a fall back to the earlier versions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug Sanders
I hate it also. it never seems to be able to find any file that I
type in, the old system was much better, I need something better than this.

Re: Anybody else hate the search system?

"Doug Sanders" <dougsix@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:9oCdncsYdaiyua3WnZ2dnUVZ_judnZ2d@earthlink.co m...
>I bypassed the Vista OS, and stuck with XP til now.
>
> Is this Search routine the only option? It brings up all kinds of
> mismatches and items when all I want is to find the file with the name I
> typed into the 'Search' box.
>
> Is there a better way or a fall back to the earlier versions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug Sanders

I don't mind the Win7 search engine, but hated the Vista one. XP was OK, but
I wanted something better for it, too, so I got Agent Ransack.http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/
It works very well in all 3 OS's and is a freebie.
--
SC Tom

Re: Anybody else hate the search system?

Hate? No, but I am disappointed with the Windows 7 desktop search system and
sometimes get fed up watching the green bar crawling from left to right that
seems to slow down even more beyond 90%.

I would would be tempted to use Copernic were it not that it does not appear
to support (or even acknowledge the existence of) Win 7 or Windows Live
mail.

If there is a way of speeding up the Win 7 search or a good replacement for
it I would be glad to hear of it.

DougS (not Sanders)

"Doug Sanders" <dougsix@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:9oCdncsYdaiyua3WnZ2dnUVZ_judnZ2d@earthlink.co m...
> I bypassed the Vista OS, and stuck with XP til now.
>
> Is this Search routine the only option? It brings up all kinds of
> mismatches and items when all I want is to find the file with the name I
> typed into the 'Search' box.
>
> Is there a better way or a fall back to the earlier versions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug Sanders

Re: Anybody else hate the search system?

"Augustus" <gehenna@telusplanet.net>wrote
>> I was surprised how much memory and CPU time was freed up. Now I have a
>> good searching tool and a faster system too.
>
> Yes, I'd be surprised too.

Please stop lying and confusing people. Windows Search is slow, heavy and
malfunctioning. After hours and hours of indexing, it just won't find some
existing files, and will return some random results that don't match the
typed search string. It's really hard to do worse than that: A useless
waste of time and resources.